Taste Test: Saintway gaze back in time to a place very ‘Far Away’
The acoustic-pop duo stitch a warm blanket as they pine on the past with a new song.
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Pining for lost love is as old as the hills, and its an essential ingredient for much of the American songbook. Years after time has put a hefty distance between the past and present, our heartache scars still run deep. Catching flight on a floating jam-band folk tune, Swedish acoustic-pop duo Saintway ⏤ of Adam and John Kristiansson ⏤ permit the faint bittersweetness of the past to flood back onto their bodies. With “Far Away,” which also glistens with not only their warbling falsetto but giddy handclaps, the band feels the yearning in their bones shatter right through their chest, against the very shiny texture of the music. “It has never been this dark / I could really use your spark,” they sing. The arrangement is delightfully and deceivingly chipper, and the duo appear to bask in the sun. But the emotion is ripe on the vine, ready for plucking and satisfying consumption.
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